The sun shone clear and hot, and the guests in the garden were glad to rest in the shaded places of promenade1 along the brooksides and under the beeches3 and soaring pines of the avenues. Far up the extended hollow there was a basin first to receive the water from the conduit supposed to tap the aqueduct leading down from the forest of Belgrade. The noise of the little cataract4 there was strong enough to draw a quota5 of visitors. From the front gate to the basin, from the basin to the summit of the promontory6, the company in lingering groups amused each other detailing what of fortune good and bad the year had brought them. The main features of such meetings are always alike. There were games by the children, lovers in retired7 places, and old people plying8 each other with reminiscences. The faculty9 of enjoyment10 changes but never expires.
An array of men chosen for the purpose sallied from the basement of the palace carrying baskets of bread, fruits in season, and wine of the country in water-skins. Dispersing11 themselves through the garden, they waited on the guests, and made distribution without stint12 or discrimination. The heartiness13 of their welcome may be imagined; while the thoughtful reader will see in the liberality thus characterizing her hospitality one of the secrets of the Princess's popularity with the poor along the Bosphorus. Nor that merely. A little reflection will lead up to an explanation of her preference for the Homeric residence by Therapia. The commonalty, especially the unfortunate amongst them, were a kind of constituency of hers, and she loved living where she could most readily communicate with them.
This was the hour she chose to go out and personally visit her guests. Descending14 from the portico15, she led her household attendants into the garden. She alone appeared unveiled. The happiness of the many amongst whom she immediately stepped touched every spring of enjoyment in her being; her eyes were bright, her cheeks rosy16, her spirit high; in a word, the beauty so peculiarly hers, and which no one could look on without consciousness of its influence, shone with singular enhancement.
News that she was in the garden spread rapidly, and where she went everyone arose and remained standing17. Now and then, while making acknowledgments to groups along the way, she recognized acquaintances, and for such, whether men or women, she had a smile, sometimes a word. Upon her passing, they pursued with benisons, "God bless you!" "May the Holy Mother keep her!" Not unfrequently children ran flinging flowers at her feet, and mothers knelt and begged her blessing18. They had lively recollection of a sickness or other overtaking by sorrow, and of her boat drawing to the landing laden19 with delicacies20, and bringing what was quite as welcome, the charm of her presence, with words inspiring hope and trust. The vast, vociferous21, premeditated Roman ovation22, sonorously23 the Triumph, never brought a Consular24 hero the satisfaction this Christian25 woman now derived27.
She was aware of the admiration28 which went with her, and the sensation was of walking through a purer and brighter sunshine. Nor did she affect to put aside the triumph there certainly was in the demonstration29; but she accounted it the due of charity--a triumph of good work done for the pleasure there was in the doing.
At the basin mentioned as the landward terminus of the garden the progress in that direction stopped. Thence, after gracious attentions to the women and children there, the Princess set out for the summit of the promontory. The road taken was broad and smooth, and on the left hand lined from bottom to top with pine trees, some of which are yet standing.
The summit had been a place of interest time out of mind. From its woody cover, the first inhabitants beheld30 the Argonauts anchor off the town of Amycus, king of the Bebryces; there the vengeful Medea practised her incantations; and descending to acknowledged history, it were long telling the notable events of the ages landmarked by the hoary31 height. When the builder of the palace below threw his scheme of improvement over the brow of the hill, he constructed water basins on different levels, surrounding them with raised walls artistically32 sculptured; between the basins he pitched marble pavilions, looking in the distance like airy domes33 on a Cyclopean temple; then he drew the work together by a tesselated pavement identical with the floor of the house of Caesar hard by the Forum34 in Rome.
Giving little heed35 to the other guests in occupancy of the summit, the attendants of the Princess broke into parties sight seeing; while she called Sergius to her, and conducted him to a point commanding the Bosphorus for leagues. A favorite lookout36, in fact, the spot had been provided with a pavement and a capacious chair cut from a block of the coarse brown limestone37 native to the locality. There she took seat, and the ascent38, though all in shade, having been wearisome, she was glad of the blowing of the fresh upper air.
From a place in the rear Sergius had witnessed the progress to the present halt. Every incident and demonstration had been in his view and hearing. The expressions of affection showered upon the Princess were delightful39 to him; they seemed so spontaneous and genuine. As testimony40 to her character in the popular estimate at least, they left nothing doubtful. His first impression of her was confirmed. She was a woman to whom Heaven had confided41 every grace and virtue42. Such marvels43 had been before. He had heard of them in tradition, and always in a strain to lift those thus favored above the hardened commonplace of human life, creatures not exactly angels, yet moving in the same atmosphere with angels. The monasteries44, even those into whose gates women are forbidden to look, all have stories of womanly excellence45 which the monks47 tell each other in pauses from labor48 in the lentil patch, and in their cells after vesper prayers. In brief, so did Sergius' estimate of the Princess increase that he was unaware49 of impropriety when, trudging50 slowly after the train of attendants, he associated her with heroines most odorous in Church and Scriptural memories; with Mothers Superior famous for sanctity; with Saints, like Theckla and Cecilia; with the Prophetess who was left by the wayside in the desert of Zin, and the later seer and singer, she who had her judgment51-seat under the palm tree of Deborah.
Withal, however, the monk46 was uncomfortable. The words of his Hegumen pursued him. Should he tell the Princess? Assailed52 by doubts, he followed her to the lookout on the edge of the promontory.
Seating herself, she glanced over the wide field of water below; from the vessels53 there, she gazed across to Asia; then up at the sky, full to its bluest depth with the glory of day. At length she asked:
"Have you heard from Father Hilarion?"
"Not yet," Sergius replied.
"I was thinking of him," she continued. "He used to tell me of the primitive54 church--the Church of the Disciples55. One of his lessons returns to me. He seems to be standing where you are. I hear his voice. I see his countenance56. I remember his words: 'The brethren while of one faith, because the creed57 was too simple for division, were of two classes, as they now are and will always be'--ay, Sergius, as they will always be!--'But,' he said, 'it is worthy58 remembrance, my dear child, unlike the present habit, the rich held their riches with the understanding that the brethren all had shares in them. The owner was more than owner; he was a trustee charged with the safe-keeping of his property, and with farming it to the best advantage, that he might be in condition to help the greatest number of the Christian brotherhood59 according to their necessities.' I wondered greatly at the time, but not now. The delight I have today confirms the Father; for it is not in my palace and garden, nor in my gold, but in the power I derive26 from them to give respite60 from the grind of poverty to so many less fortunate than myself. 'The divine order was not to desist from getting wealth'--thus the Father continued--'for Christ knew there were who, labor as they might, could not accumulate or retain; circumstances would be against them, or the genius might be wanting. Poor without fault, were they to suffer, and curse God with the curse of the sick, the cold, the naked, the hungry? Oh, no! Christ was the representative of the Infinitely61 Merciful. Under his dispensation they were to be partners of the more favored.' Who can tell, who can begin to measure the reward there is to me in the laughter of children at play under the trees by the brooks2, and in the cheer and smiles of women whom I have been able to draw from the unvarying routine of toil62 like theirs?"
There was a ship with full spread sail speeding along so close in shore Sergius could have thrown a stone on its deck. He affected63 to be deeply interested in it. The ruse64 did not avail him.
"What is the matter?"
Receiving no reply, she repeated the question.
"My dear friend, you are not old enough in concealment65 to deceive me. You are in trouble. Come sit here.... True, I am not an authorized66 confessor; yet I know the principle on which the Church defends the confessional. Let me share your burden. Insomuch as you give me, you shall be relieved."
It came to him then that he must speak.
"Princess," he began, striving to keep his voice firm, "you know not what you ask."
"Is it what a woman may hear?"
A step nearer brought him on the tesselated square.
"I hesitate, Princess, because a judgment is required of me. Hear, and help me first."
Then he proceeded rapidly:
"There is one just entered holy service. He is a member of an ancient and honorable Brotherhood, and by reason of his inexperience, doubtless, its obligations rest the heavier on his conscience. His superior has declared to him how glad he would be had he a son like him, and confiding67 in his loyalty68, he intrusted him with gravest secrets; amongst others, that a person well known and greatly beloved is under watch for the highest of religious crimes. Pause now, O Princess, and consider the obligations inseparable from the relation and trust here disclosed.... Look then to this other circumstance. The person accused condescended69 to be the friend and patron of the same neophyte70, and by vouching71 for him to the head of the Church, put him on the road to favor and quick promotion72. Briefly73, O Princess, to which is obligation first owing? The father superior or the patron in danger?"
The Princess replied calmly, but with feeling: "It is not a supposition, Sergius."
Though surprised, he returned: "Without it I could not have your decision first."
"Thou, Sergius, art the distressed74 neophyte."
He held his hands out to her: "Give me thy judgment."
"The Hegumen of the St. James' is the accuser."
"Be just, O Princess! To which is the obligation first owing?"
"I am the accused," she continued, in the same tone.
He would have fallen on his knees. "No, keep thy feet. A watchman may be behind me now."
He had scarcely resumed his position before she asked, still in the quiet searching manner: "What is the highest religious crime? Or rather, to men in authority, like the Hegumen of your Brotherhood, what is the highest of all crimes?"
He looked at her in mute supplication75.
"I will tell you--HERESY."
Then, compassionating76 his suffering, she added: "My poor Sergius! I am not upbraiding77 you. You are showing me your soul. I see it in its first serious trial.... I will forget that I am the denounced, and try to help you. Is there no principle to which we can refer the matter--no Christian principle? The Hegumen claims silence from you; on the other side, your conscience--I would like to say preference--impels you to speak a word of warning for the benefit of your patroness. There, now, we have both the dispute and the disputants. Is it not so?"
Sergius bowed his head.
"Father Hilarion once said to me: 'Daughter, I give you the ultimate criterion of the divineness of our religion--there cannot be an instance of human trial for which it does not furnish a rule of conduct and consolation78.' A profound saying truly! Now is it possible we have here at last an exception? I do not seek to know on which side the honors lie. Where are the humanities? Ideas of honor are of men conventional. On the other hand, the humanities stand for Charity. If thou wert the denounced, O Sergius, how wouldst thou wish to be done by?"
Sergius' face brightened.
"We are not seeking to save a heretic--we are in search of quiet for our consciences. So why not ask and answer further: What would befall the Hegumen, did you tell the accused all you had from him? Would he suffer? Is there a tribunal to sentence him? Or a prison agape for him? Or torture in readiness? Or a King of Lions? In these respects how is it with the friend who vouched79 for you to the head of the Church? Alas80!"
"Enough--say no more!" Sergius cried impulsively81. "Say no more. O Princess, I will tell everything--I will save you, if I can--if not, and the worst come, I will die with you."
Womanlike the Princess signalized her triumph with tears. At length she asked: "Wouldst thou like to know if I am indeed a heretic?"
"Yes, for what thou art, that am I; and then"--
"The same fire in the Hippodrome may light us both out of the world."
There was a ring of prophecy in the words.
"God forbid!" he ejaculated, with a shiver.
"God's will be done, were better! ... So, if it please you," she went on, "tell me all the Hegumen told you about me."
"Everything?" he asked doubtfully.
"Why not?"
"Part of it is too wicked for repetition."
"Yet it was an accusation82."
"Yes."
"Sergius, you are no match in cunning for my enemies. They are Greeks trained to diplomacy83; you are"--she paused and half smiled--"only a pupil of Hilarion's. See now--if they mean to kill me, how important to invent a tale which shall rob me of sympathy, and reconcile the public to my sacrifice. They who do much good, and no harm"--she cast a glance at the people swarming84 around the pavilions--"always have friends. Such is the law of kindness, and it never failed but once; but today a splinter of the Cross is worth a kingdom."
"Princess, I will hold nothing back."
"And I, Sergius--God witnessing for me--will speak to each denunciation thou givest me."
"There were two matters in the Hegumen's mind," Sergius began, but struck with the abruptness85, he added apologetically: "I pray you, Princess, remember I speak at your insistence86, and that I am not in any sense an accuser. It may be well to say also the Hegumen returned from last night's Mystery low in spirits, and much spent bodily, and before speaking of you, declared he had been an active partisan87 of your father's. I do not think him your personal enemy."
A mist of tears dimmed her eyes while the Princess replied: "He was my father's friend, and I am grateful to him; but alas! that he is naturally kind and just is now of small consequence."
"It grieves me"--
"Do not stop," she said, interrupting him.
"At the Father's bedside I received his blessing; and asked leave to be absent a few days. 'Where?' he inquired, and I answered: 'Thou knowest I regard the Princess Irene as my little mother. I should like to go see her.'"
Sergius sought his auditor's face at this, and observing no sign of objection to the familiarity, was greatly strengthened.
"The Father endeavored to persuade me not to come, and it was with that purpose he entered upon the disclosures you ask.... 'The life the Princess leads'--thus he commenced--'and her manners, are outside the sanctions of society.'"
Here, from resting on her elbow, the listener sat upright, grasping the massive arm of the chair.
"Shall I proceed, O Princess?"
"Yes."
"This place is very public"--he glanced at the people above them.
"I will hear you here."
"At your pleasure.... The Hegumen referred next to your going about publicly unveiled. While not positively88 wrong, he condemned89 the practice as a pernicious example; besides which there was a defiant90 boldness in it, he said, tending to make you a subject of discussion and indelicate remark."
The hand on the stony91 arm trembled.
"I fear, O Princess," Sergius continued, with downcast look, "that my words are giving you pain."
"But they are not yours. Go on."
"Then the Father came to what was much more serious."
Sergius again hesitated.
"I am listening," she said.
"He termed it your persistence92 in keeping up the establishment here at Therapia."
The Princess grew red and white by turns.
"He said the Turk was too near you; that unmarried and unprotected your proper place was in some house of God on the Islands, or in the city, where you could have the benefit of holy offices. As it was, rumor93 was free to accuse you of preferring guilty freedom to marriage."
The breeze fell off that moment, leaving the Princess in the centre of a profound hush94; except for the unwonted labor of her heart, the leaves overhead were not more still. The sight of her was too oppressive-- Sergius turned away. Presently he heard her say, as if to herself: "I am indeed in danger. If my death were not in meditation95, the boldest of them would not dare think so foul96 a falsehood.... Sergius," she said.
He turned to her, but she broke off diverted by another idea. Had this last accusation reference to the Emperor's dream of making her his wife? Could the Emperor have published what took place between them? Impossible!
"Sergius, did the Hegumen tell you whence this calumny97 had origin?"
"He laid it to rumor merely."
"Surely he disclosed some ground for it. A dignitary of his rank and profession cannot lend himself to shaming a helpless woman without reason or excuse."
"Except your residence at Therapia, he gave no reason."
Here she looked at Sergius, and the pain in the glance was pitiful. "My friend, is there anything in your knowledge which might serve such a rumor?"
"Yes," he replied, letting his eyes fall.
"What!" and she lifted her head, and opened her eyes.
He stood silent and evidently suffering.
"Poor Sergius! The punishment is yours. I am sorry for you--sorry we entered on this subject--but it is too late to retire from it. Speak bravely. What is it you know against me? It cannot be a crime; much I doubt if it be a sin; my walk has been very strait and altogether in God's view. Speak!"
"Princess," he answered, "coming down from the landing, I was stopped by a concourse studying a brass98 plate nailed to the right-hand pillar of your gate. It was inscribed99, but none of them knew the import of the inscription100. The hamari came up, and at sight of it fell to saluting101, like the abject102 Eastern he is. The bystanders chaffered him, and he retorted, and, amongst other things, said the brass was a safeguard directed to all Turks, notifying them that this property, its owner, and inmates103 were under protection of the Prince Mahommed. Give heed now, I pray you, O Princess, to this other thing of the man's saying. The notice was the Prince Mahommed's, the inscription his signature, and the Prince himself fixed104 the plate on the pillar with his own hand."
Sergius paused.
"Well," she asked.
"The inferences--consider them."
"State them."
"My tongue refuses. Or if I must, O Princess, I will use the form of accusation others are likely to have adopted. 'The Princess Irene lives at Therapia because Prince Mahommed is her lover, and it is a convenient place of meeting. Therefore his safeguard on her gate.'"
"No one could be bold enough to"--
"One has been bold enough."
"One?"
"The Hegumen of my Brotherhood."
The Princess was very pale.
"It is cruel--cruel!" she exclaimed. "What ought I to do?"
"Treat the safeguard as a discovery of to-day, and have it removed while the people are all present." She looked at him searchingly. On her forehead between the brows, he beheld a line never there before. More surprising was the failure of self-reliance observable in her request for counsel. Heretofore her courage and sufficiency had been remarkable105. In all dealings with him she had proved herself the directress, quick yet decided106. The change astonished him, so little was he acquainted with the feminine nature; and in reply he spoke107 hastily, hardly knowing what he had said. The words were not straightforward108 and honest; they were not becoming him any more than the conduct suggested was becoming her; they lingered in his ear, a wicked sound, and he would have recalled them--but he hesitated.
Here a voice in fierce malediction109 was heard up at the pavilions, together with a prodigious110 splashing of water. Laughter, clapping of hands, and other expressions of delight succeeded.
"Go, Sergius, and see what is taking place," said the Princess.
Glad of the opportunity to terminate the painful scene, he hastened to the reservoirs and returned.
"Your presence will restore quiet at once."
The people made way for their hostess with alacrity111. The hamari, it appeared, had just arrived from the garden. Observing Lael in the midst of the suite112 of fair ladies, he advanced to her with many strange salutations. Alarmed, she would have run away had not Joqard broken from his master, and leaped with a roar into the water. The poor beast seemed determined113 to enjoy the bath. He swam, and dived, and played antics without number. In vain the showman, resorting to every known language, coaxed114 and threatened by turns--Joqard was self-willed and happy, and it were hard saying which appreciated his liberty most, he or the spectators of the scene.
The Princess, for the time conquering her pain of heart, interceded115 for the brute116; whereupon the hamari, like a philosopher used to making the best of surprises, joined in the sport until Joqard grew tired, and voluntarily returned to control.
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